Personality and predictability in fallow deer fighting behaviour: Therelationship with mating success

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1041-1047

  Jennings, Domhnall J ^a   Hayden, Thomas J ^b   Gammell, Martin P ^c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c Atlantic Technological University Sligo   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Dama dama; Escalation rate; Fallow deer; Fighting; Intraindividual variability; Mating success; Personality; Predictability

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DEER; FIGHTING; FITNESS; MATING SUCCESS;

ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; DAMA DAMA;

EID: 84886232872     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.09.009     Document Type: Article

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